Grendel
$34.17
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
7 September 2015
Summary
Grendel: Monster of Meaning
When Grendel emerges from the murky depths, he unleashes chaos upon Hrothgar’s meadhall. But what choice does he have? He is unlike the humans, consumed by God, love, and beauty. He witnesses their infuriating pursuit of order and confronts the utter meaninglessness of his own existence.
GRENDEL vividly reimagines the world of Beowulf, crafting a monster of grotesque comedy, pain, and disillusioned intelligence. In Grendel, Gardner creates the mos…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473212015 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473212014 |
| Series: | Fantasy Masterworks |
| Author: | John C. Gardner |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Gollancz |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 7 September 2015 |
| Weight: | 147g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 134mm x 13mm |
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Few writers ever reach this level of greatness, It doesn’t matter whether you think Grendel’s about Anglo-Saxon warriors battling monsters or the collapse of superstition and the rise of capitalism, or both at once, this is mythic writing in every sense of those words. - SFX
This is a marvellous novel, absolutely marvellous: witty, intelligent, delightful, so totally a work of the imagination that it creates its own world while touching upon our memories of myth and verse, a celebration of what we most need in one of the greatest poetic myths we have. - NewsweekNo point in beating around the bush: John Gardner’s third novel, GRENDEL, is an extraordinary achievement - New York TimesAbout The Author
John C. Gardner
John Champlin Gardner Jr. was an American academic, a scholar of mediaeval literature, and a writer who incorporated fantasy elements in many of his stories and novels, most notably in GRENDEL, JASON AND MEDEA, FREDDY’S BOOK, and IN THE SUICIDE MOUNTAINS. Gardner was eclectic and prolific; he also wrote children’s books, libretti, academic and non-fiction works, and plays.
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